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Inverse problems of the general-relativistic mechanics of test bodies and applications to general relativity

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In a generally relativistic framework, we pose and solve problems of reconstructing a tensor force field of Lorentz type and a scalar force field V(xi) from a given metric of a four-dimensional Riemannian space-time and given properties of the motion of test bodies in this space. We solve the problem of finding the potentials giκ of the gravitational field from known tensor force field Fiκ = Fκi and from given properties of the motion of bodies in the gravitational field which is being sought. The functional arbitrariness in the solution of these inverse problems is established. Applications of the results to the general theory of relativity are demonstrated and reveal new possibilities of experimental determination of physical fields from their effect on test bodies.

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  1. Bashkirian State Pedagogical Institute, USSR

    R. S. Singatullin

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 25–29, October, 1980.

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Singatullin, R.S. Inverse problems of the general-relativistic mechanics of test bodies and applications to general relativity. Soviet Physics Journal 23, 854–858 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892254

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